In news that should keep parties going until the early morning at Gamestopseverywhere, Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida tells Eurogamer that used games will still play on the PlayStation 4. Despite some issues with the translation, he stated clearly that "used games can play on a PS4." That appears to clearly put the issue to bed, despite rumors or patent misinterpretations passed around the internet recently. Now, we wait for our own chance to ask a few questions of Sony about its upcoming console like "what does it look like?", and the competition over at Microsoft goes on the hot seat with secondhand-loving gamers.

Why is that a slap. If the PS4 can play used games, and it hasn't been abandoned by all the big publishers because it can play used games. That pretty much confirms that the 360 can play used games as well.

I for one am grateful, I've got some great titles that I've kept (psx and ps2)(and ps3 once the 4 is out) it would be nice to at least to some degree, play them all on one console

It's used PS4 games it will be able to play. The PS4 is not backwards compatible with older gen games though. It will stream those games instead (at a cost I wager), so if you plan on keeping your older games it would be wise to keep the hardware too.